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FAMOUS PEOPLE MAKE BAD DEALS TOO

January 30, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Famous people are like unicorns around here: I’d have to make one up. Besides, I like famous people best when I know nothing about them. Call it the Elvis Effect.

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A MERRY CHRISTMAS LOOKS LIKE:

December 25, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Johnny looks ready for some merriment? Or:

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TACTICAL AGING: WHAT TO LEAVE OUT

June 28, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Tactical aging comes with a certain age. Some call it the ‘whispering’ age. Others stick with ‘a certain age.’ Both mean the same thing:

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TRAVEL MAGIC: RIGHT SONG, RIGHT TIME

March 21, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Travel magic starts with the right song. Too often we hear it later and think how good it would have been. It’s the right song after the fact, the song you’d choose in a do-over of where you’ve been. But when it hits right, you know it.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Elvis, good tourist, grand hyatt, Hawaii, hawaiian, izzy, kauai, memory, music, right song, right time, tourist, travel, travel magic, whales

GUITAR SEARCH NEVER ENDS, BUT IF IT DID …

June 13, 2019 by David Gillaspie

Every guitar search starts in the same place: sound. How does it sound the first time played? In different rooms? What’s it sound like when you thump the flat top? What does it feel like in your hands from fret to pick? Look until you can’t look anymore, or just get the same guitar Bruce […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Bob Dylan, Elvis, epiphone, Gibson, Gibson guitar, Gibson sj 200, GUITAR, jumbo, music, super jumbo

MUSIC MUSEUM WILD MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

April 23, 2019 by David Gillaspie

What came before bagpipes in music museum? Is it the ‘goat pipe?’ Maybe the ‘dog pipe?’ Which ever it was, I didn’t get to hear how they sounded. The Musical Instrument Museum in Scottsdale AZ isn’t for the timid. Music minded people throughout the ages learned to improvise. Like Elvis singing Jailhouse Rock where inmates […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Elvis, friends, Johnny Cash, muisic, music culture, music museum, musical instrument museum, play music, Scottsdale, wife

Portland Welcome Mat: How To Walk Around Downtown Portland

August 20, 2018 by David Gillaspie

One of the great things about sponsoring foreign exchange students after your own kids have been out of college for years is rolling out the welcome mat. The Portland welcome mat. And dragging everyone possible along the Portland Trail. My wagon train always starts with Saturday Market and the sort of […]

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LADY DAY PLAYS BOOMERPDX BAR AND GRILL

June 14, 2018 by David Gillaspie

“Most men won’t go to live theater with their wives,” was an observation my wife shared. We were walking out of Portland Center Stage at the Armory on NW 11th by Powell’s Tuesday night when she said it. I was revved up after seeing LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR AND GRILL. “Did I ever thank […]

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: NO NOBEL LIKE A NEW JERSEY NOBEL

March 17, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Bruce Springsteen a future Nobel Laureate? If Bob Dylan wins a Nobel Prize for Literature, why wouldn’t the man once called ‘The Next Bob Dylan?’ Along with lyrics that dare challenge the scope of epic rock and rollers of the past, Gilgamesh, Homer, Virgil, Ovid, The Boss and his body of work stand […]

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AARP POINTS THEIR MONEY FINGER

February 10, 2014 by David Gillaspie

Do you really expect celebrities to invest wisely? What’s easier, shooting fish in a barrel or making fun of famous people losing their money? If most of us live lives of quiet desperation, the media turns up the sound for the loud ones. And nothing gets louder than rich-man failure in America. Show business people losing […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: AARP, annie leibovitz, baby boomer, bernie madoff, deadspin, Elvis, financial fraud, Fred Wilpon, Hollywood, Steven spielberg, Warren Buffet